Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

While naturalized citizens take an oath renouncing previous allegiances, this does not have any force of law. Unless you are in one of several very rare situations, the US government will not care about your other citizenships.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

L recently put together an interesting dessert cocktail - a grasshopper slightly modified to overcome the lack of cream in our fridge. While I pretty much exclusively know how to make a margarita, which I make 4:2:1 tequila:orange liquor:lime juice, and a sweet Manhattan, with equal parts vermouth and rye, it should not be too hard to learn more. Mark Bittman has a good bird's eye view of the cocktail world, and there is a good list of some of the currently resurgent classic cocktails on AMC's Mad Men cocktail menu.

While I'm at it, I really should learn more about wine. The only way to do that is to do blind tastings at home. If anyone wants to come over for a wine tasting party, let me know.

Monday, October 25, 2010

The first section of the Metro to open was the Red line between North and Rhode Island Ave, not the Yellow Line.

Although I know it as something that people in AA say, the "definition" of insanity quip was most likely first said by Rita Mae Brown.

While there are still some German speakers in Romania - I'm guessing mostly in Transylvania - it appears Romanian is the most commonly spoken language in Transylvania by far, with German coming behind Magyar and possibly Vlax Romani in terms of number of speakers.